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warded to certain governmental establishments in those Provinces 

 for distribution. The department of the interior of that country 

 has been asked to undertake the distribution and also to forward 

 to the United States such books as may be sent in return — the de- 

 partment acting in the same capacity for the Union of South Africa 

 as this Exchange Service does for the United States. 



Through the wrecking of the steamship Papanui, the Institution 

 lost cases 117 and 158, containing exchanges for distribution in West- 

 ern Australia by the Public Library at Perth. A number of pack- 

 ages sent in care of the director general of stores, India Office, Lon- 

 don, were also lost at sea during the year, owing to the stranding 

 of the steamer by which they were being transmitted to India. It is 

 gratifying to state that the Institution has succeeded in procuring 

 from the senders copies of most of the lost publications, which have 

 been duly transmitted to their various destinations. 



FOREIGN DEPOSITORIES OF UNITED STATES GOVERNMENTAL 



DOCUMENTS. 



The number of sets of United States official publications regularly 

 forwarded to foreign countries in accordance with treaty stipulations 

 and under the authority of the congressional resolutions of March 2, 

 1867, and March 2, 1901, has been reduced from 89 to 86 — one set 

 instead of four now being forwarded to the Union of South Africa, 

 to which reference is made above. This reduction in the number of 

 sets transmitted abroad will be only temporary, as negotiations are 

 now under way looking to the establishment of new exchanges. 



The recipients of the 54 full and 32 partial sets are as follows : 



DEPOSITORIES OF FULL SETS. 



Argentina : Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Buenos Aires. 



Argentina : Biblioteca de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. 



Australia : Library of the Commonwealth Parliament, Melbourne. 



Austria : K. K. Statistische Central-Commission, Vienna. 



Baden : Universitats-Bibliothek, Freiburg. 



Bavaria : Konigliche Hof- und Staats-Bibliothek, Munich. 



Belgium : Bibliotheque Royale, Brussels. 



Brazil : Bibliotheca Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. 



Canada : Parliamentary Library, Ottawa. 



Chile : Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional, Santiago. 



China : American-Chinese Publication Exchange Department, Shanghai Bureau 



of Foreign Affairs, Shanghai. 

 Colombia : Biblioteca Nacional, Bogota. 

 Costa Rica : Oficina de Deposito y Canje Internacional de Publicaciones, San 



Jose. 

 Cuba: Secretaria de Hstado (Asuutos Generales y Canje Internacional), 



llabana. 

 Denmark: Kongelige Bibliotheket, Copenhagen. 



